Ellipsis

:This article is not about the ellipse, the flattened circle shape.

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Ellipsis Έλλειψις (plural: ellipses ελλείψεις, Greek for omission) in linguistics refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three dots (…) or asterisks (* * *) indicating such an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of elipsis or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.

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An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence.

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Ellipse: In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is a plane algebraic curve where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus)....

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